A NEW YORK TRAGEDY.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1280, 10 September 1886, Page 1

A NEW YORK TRAGEDY.

New York (says tire Nov/ York correspondent of the ‘ Ago,’ writing on June 30) has just been the scene of a tragedy in which there was a considerable amount of romance. A young man, Thompson by name, the son of a well to do clergyman in a western city, was sent here to study medicine. Bis father allowed him 1200dol a year for his expenses (L2O a month), and the youth sent regular accounts of his progress in his studies, lie was expected to graduate iu April last, and take his diploma as a fullfledged doctor of medicine, and his family had no suspicion that anything was wrong. But the fact was he was not attending to the study of medicine he was wasting his substance in riotous living, and devoting his time and attention in circles where good young men are not often found. He was engaged to many a girl in his native city, but a few weeks ago ho wrote to tell her that all was off between them. On June 2, tiro day of the wedding of the President of the United States, Thompson was married to a saleswoman iu one of the large establishments devoted to the retailing of cay goods and kindred merchandise, and then started on a bridal trip to the Eastern States. She was a girl of unblemi-hed reputation, beloved of her associates in the salesroom, and devotedly attached to her husband, who had represented himself to ho well off and able to support her in good style. From the bridal trip they returned to New York and took rooms at the Sturtevant House,whence tiny were to depart on (he afternoon of July 15 for h.s home in the West, making two or three detours of pleasure on the way. At three o’clock I ou that afternoon there was a ring cf the bell of the room occupied by the bridal pair. The servant who wont to I the door found it locked, and heard groans within the apartment. Aid